Abstract. We motivate in this paper the need for application-level proximity. This proximity is a function of network characteristics that decide on the application performance. Mo...
The number of web pages available on Internet increases day after day, and consequently finding relevant information becomes more and more a hard task. However, when we consider ...
Aliaksandr Birukou, Enrico Blanzieri, Paolo Giorgi...
Matchmaking will be an important component of future agent and agent-like systems, such as the semantic web. Most research on matchmaking has been directed toward sophisticated ma...
In multi-agent systems where sets of joint actions (JAs) are generated, metrics are needed to evaluate these sets and efficiently allocate resources for the many JAs. For the case...
Jonathan P. Pearce, Rajiv T. Maheswaran, Milind Ta...
Healthcare processes require the cooperation of different organizational units and medical disciplines. In such an environment optimal process support becomes crucial. Though hea...